"Mass media in Tanzania are scarce and, as the title implies, their main role is informational and instructional, designed to clarify and develop national direction and consciousness rather than to be a source of entertainment. To this end the author surveys the main communication channels - what th
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ey are, their availability, what they carry, and perhaps most important, how well they fulfill their function to promote the country's ideology and development policies. There are two bibliographies - "Publications on Socialism and Self-Reliance and the Implied Role of Communication," and "On Communication Theory and Practice." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 315)
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"Vol.1: Capitalism, Imperialism (1979); Vol.2: Liberation, Socialism. 'Communication and Class Struggle' is an anthology containing more than 120 articles originating in over 50 countries since the mid-nineteenth century which were selected by the editors to explain three interrelated questions abou
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t the mass communication process from the Marxist viewpoint: 1) how communication is conditioned by basic economic, social, ideological and cultural factors; 2) how capitalistic production affects communication practice and theory in bourgeois society; and 3) how the underprivileged and the working classes have reacted in certain countries by developing their own communication theory and practice. Selected bibliography." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 273)
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"An analysis of the mass media in South Africa as instruments of oppression or liberation and their role in effecting change or perpetuating the status quo. Chimutengwende examines the operation of the press within the South African socio-economic and legislative system and in relation to the blacks
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' struggle for liberation, ending with conclusions as the role of the press in affecting change or maintaining the status quo. For the latter he has drawn heavily on communication theory. This is a measured and well-reasoned study that challenges some Western concepts of freedom of the press. Emphasis is on print media." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 66)
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"New regime eased its guidance of the media in 1975 but then tightened controls in 1976 as street rioters protested inflation." (Abstract)
"An introduction to the practice of overseas broadcasting as propaganda and the various ideological philosophies back of it, in terms both of sender and receiver. Analysis centers around Nazi Germany, the Communist countries, the U.S.'s Voice of America, Britain's BBC, and the undeveloped parts of t
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he world. A large section is devoted to factors affecting success or failure. Appendixes give a table of radio sets and ownership around the world in 1973; external broadcasting statistics in 1950, 1960, 1970, and 1973; extracts from internal Policy Guidelines of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty; and extracts from a BBC unpublished monitoring report." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 641)
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